Roller-skate



(No Model.)

F. W. HILL.

ROLLER SKATE.

No. 346,158. Patented July 27, 1886.

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FREDERICK \V. HILL, OF HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

ROLLER-SKATE.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,158, dated July 2'7, 1886.

Applicalion filed August 18, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roller-Skates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in roller-skates, and has for its object to provide rolls for the same which will wear more uniformly and enable the user to turn more readily than those now in use; and with these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter fully and in detail explained, and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may fully understand its construction and operation, I will proceed to describe the same in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a skate embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a bottom view, and Fig. 3 a rear elevation.

Similar letters denote like parts in the sev' eral figures of the drawings.

A is the frame or foot-piece, which I make Serial No. 140,788. (No model.)

I have shown but two rolls to a skate; but

I do not wish to limit myself to that number, as three or four may be used with equal fa cility; and I also do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the kind of hangers used or the manner in which the rolls arejournaled, as the gist of my invention restsdn the broad idea of a spherical roll.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is- In a roller-skate, the combination, with a flexible foot-piece, of the spherical roller secured to said foot-piece, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK XV. HILL.

Witnesses:

LUoIUs P. DENING, GEo. M. WHITE. 

